| Salvatore has alot of other really good books not dealing with Drizzt you know. He didn't really have a choice, Wizards saw the money and made him keep writing about Drizzt, i'm glad they let him write about Artemis and Jarlaxle some more and next month the 3rd book of that series comes out. The Cadderly 5 book series is also really good. War of the Spider Queen series is really good too though Salvatore doesn't have much more than an advisory role.
As for other authors, well most are just as guilty as Salvatore. Eddings has done much the same and Jordan has been dragging his series on since like Book 5.
Only authors that I have liked everything they have put out is Weis/Hickman, Richard Knaak (especially Legend of Huma), and Douglas Niles.
As far as authors being sell-outs, they are going to do whatever their publisher pays them to do. Just like you do what your boss tells you to at work. Money talks. |